Sort-off, the port is the same but Thunderbolt 3 devices won't work on a USB-C port. USB-C devices will work on Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 were kind of PCI-E combined with mini DisplayPort. It let you connect to external monitors, hard drives, and even GPUs. Thunderbolt had a speed of about 10Gbps and Thunderbolt 2 20Gbps and now Thunderbolt 3 is up to 40Gbps. Thunderbolt was intended to be able to do it all but few people used it until now, since nearly every newer laptop with a Skylake CPU has it.

Answered by William W from Pittsburgh

Nov 13, 2016

USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 are basically the same things, but Thunderbolt 3 is faster than USB-C. Thunderbolt 1 & 2 are previous versions of thunderbolt and transfer data slower than Thunderbolt 3.

Answered by Jason H from Lewis Center

Dec 29, 2017

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